Various Artists: Deryck Whibley (vocals, piano); Tony Vincent, Brent Smith , Lori Eure, Niki Scalera, Carly Thomas, Rosalind Brown, Maria Davidson, Jenny DiNoia, Dustin Dubreuil, Aspen Miller, Brandon Mix, Joey Calveri, Douglas Crawford, Jamison Scott (vocals); David Gilmore, Elliot Easton, Alain Johannes, Oliver Leiber, Bill Bell, Dave Brownsound, Jason Todd (guitar); Eric Hinojosa, John Gilutin (piano); Jed Leiber (Hammond b-3 organ); Greg Hawkes, Raymond Angry (keyboards); Natasha Shneider (Moog synthesizer); Abraham Laboriel, Sr., Paul Peterson, Brad Stewart , Ian Sheridan, Cone McCaslin, Brian Ray (bass guitar); Adam King (drums, percussion); Jack Irons, Abe Laboriel, Jr., Sergio González, Barry Kerch (drums); Michael Ivins, Steven Drozd, Wayne Coyne.

Released contemporaneously with a Queen "reunion" album that found the surviving members collaborating with former Bad Company singer Paul Rodgers, KILLER QUEEN features a passel of younger artists paying their respects to Freddie Mercury and company. While there's a wide variety of entrants in the build-your-own-Queen-song contest, from veteran roots-rockers Los Lobos to young neo-soul waif Joss Stone, many of these tracks stick surprisingly close to the originals. Hearing pop-punks Sum 41 and power-poppers Rooney deliver note-perfect versions of "Killer Queen" and "Death on Two Legs" respectively, one has to assume that Queen's elaborate, painstakingly created templates just seemed too perfect to disturb. Closing things out, the all-female quintet Antigone Rising adds a wry gender-bending twist to "Fat Bottomed Girls," nodding to the broad sense of camp that was always at the heart of Queen's approach.